North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico

Caribbean, island in the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela

Area

9,826,675 km sq

430 km sq

Coastline

19,924 km

97 km

Climate

mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains